Okay! After being away for... WHAT?!?! Only
six days?! It felt like it's been forever!
Alright nevermind, so after being away for
six freaking long days, this is what I've got to say:
Soon kuey is the BEST damn thing in the world - for TODAY. I ditched my fried rice of a lunch for a small soon kuey and I felt like the happiest girl in the whole wide world. Buy me soon kueys and I'll love you. Today.
I was redecorating my yahoo mailbox today, giving it a whole new colour, when I caught sight of a folder I created some years ago entitled 'Memories'. It's been so long since I last looked at the folder, that somehow I've forgotten its existence (albeit always being there). So I thought maybe there's some old hidden treasure waiting for me to be uncovered (again).
And what treasure it was indeed!
I seriously don't know how many people still remember or even KNOW the existence of this picture. Frankly speaking, had I not been reminded by the picture itself, I would not even remember I have taken such picture before.
What an old picture, was it not. We were merely still adjusting to a whole new class, getting acquainted with one another, eventually finding the people who shared our channels. And if you count the number of heads in that very picture, you'll realize that there are (surprisingly) 25 heads! Exactly the number of people in 27/06, which makes this picture, the (only) rightful class photo because this was the only picture we ever took AS A CLASS.
It was during the first few Civics lessons, was it not. It was the beginning for us, to familiarize ourselves with the 24 others around us, because they were going to be the people who would walk through the two years of JC life with us.
Looking at that picture makes me horribly nostalgic, and consequently makes me just wanna stare at it some more. Things were so different then, and things changed just so, so much as two years past us by.
I used to get irritated by that school tie wrapping itself around my neck, that I was initially amoung those the first to rip it off our necks when the clock struck 0930. But in the end I loved the way school tie made me look smart with the school U, that I didn't even take it off after school ended, and had it on all the way back to hostel.
Kylie was still in her specs in this picture, but shortly after that she RARELY appeared with glasses for the rest of the two years.
Mao still had short, ruffled streaks of hair which made her look like 'Tweety bird' - according to Cheeky's imagination, of course.
Of course if you were to pick on each and everyone there are always things you can say about us. So I shan't elaborate on that. So many things happened in the space of just two years.
I remember Mickey Mouse, and how seeing a Mickey around the school compound will leave me breathless.
I remember wearing Yongyi's skirt to see Mr Tong (sampah), because I got caught for short skirt. And I actually wore it for a few more days, for fear of repercussions.
I remember the once-a-month hundred metre dash, the early morning wake-up-call, or some regarded that as mega spirit drainer, depending on how you look at the issue, special credits to the ever so erratic bus 12 which happens to be the ONLY preferred bus to school.
I remember then, the mass late-coming, and was told to stand by the school gate. More than half of us who stood there did not say the pledge, you know why.
I remember the random yet spontaneous bridge sessions, with the ever-so-available bridge kaki's.
I remember the jungle trekking just to see fireworks. Damn, how could one forget that adventure, which proved to be very cost effective and immense satisfaction at the end of the day.
Oh, not to mention the 'little' embarrassing Econs lecture incident. Ask me and I'll tell you. Hint: it involved my phone, a random SMS, and a MORE random person.
Then, he comes into the picture. What is my JC recount without mentioning 'him'. He was an exceptional good friend, good confidante, and I was actually thrilled at how much in common we shared. And for a very short-lived period, I felt so blessed with him in my life. Yet things took a nasty flip, and that's how it concluded my JC years.
SIGH~
And in a month's time, I'll be tuning into uni life. How much longer will it take then, for me to discover nearly-forgotten treasures like this?
